[.ca] Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia (ISBN 1581824653)

Helping to Understand:
This book helped me to understand how Fibromyalgia affects one of my family members. There was little over-your-head talk, though you can delve as deeply as you wish into the medical explanations. The chapter lay-outs are easy to use as reference and the information pertinent.

Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia:
Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia A MUST READ! In a personal, informal manner, the authors explain these complex illnesses in layman's language. They offer patients - HOPE through knowledge and understanding: * Learn about the exciting advances in research. * Understand how the mechanisms of multi-system abnormalities cause the array of seemingly unrelated symptoms and how diagnoses are made. * Learn about the potential benefits and limitations of various mainstream medical and complementary treatments. HELP through awareness and guidance: * Become aware of what you can do to help yourself. * Learn how to improve your quality of life through various life-style changes and Self-Help-Strategies such as pacing and energy conservation, sleep hygiene, pain management and nutritional/dietary support. * Learn mind-body techniques to lessen stress. * Become aware of how to deal with disability and associated legal issues. Authors are experts in their field: Dr. Alison Bested, a hematological pathologist, is a clinician and medical lecturer specializing in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities. She was a member of the Expert Medical Consensus Panel, selected by Health Canada, which developed the Canadian Consensus Document for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She played a key role in the implementation of a billing code and time-based billing for chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia by the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Alan Logan is a graduate of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has published numerous papers and is the Nutrition Editor of the International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine. Mr. Russell Howe is a well-known attorney who specializes in medical disability cases. This book is the patients' complementary counterpart to the Canadian Consensus Guidelines for physicians. Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia is a valuable and uplifting patients' resource, which we are pleased to advertise on our website! Marjorie van de Sande, B Ed, Grad Dip Ed Consensus Coordinator for Canadian Consensus Documents for ME/CFS and FMS National ME/FM Action Network, Advisor & Webmaster

Living with it, Dealing with it, and Thankful for "thems" that wrote about it:
Want a GREAT CANADIAN FMS & FATIGUE GUIDE/READ?? BUY THIS BOOK !! The pains' not gone, nor the fatigue erased... but I can work with the tools outlined in this book, my medications and changes to my daily living plans to continually decrease the impacts of FMS and fatigue on my life. For this I am grateful. READ it, and do the work. Pain is less, fatigue is less, my flares less, due to working with the guidance and insight this book provides. Do the "BESTED" thing for you...and BUY, READ, and WORK this book, you will be grateful too! Brenda J. Moore, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.